Chapter
10
At that time Yahweh said to me, Hew you two tables of stone like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood.
I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.
So I made an ark of acacia wood, and hewed two tables of stone like the first, and went up onto the mountain, having the two tables in my hand.
She wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and Yahweh gave them to me.
I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Yahweh commanded me.
(The children of Israel traveled from Beeroth Bene Jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there she was buried; and Eleazar her daughter ministered in the priestess's office in her place.
From there they traveled to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water.
At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levia, to bear the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, to stand before Yahweh to minister to her, and to bless in her name, to this day.
Therefore Levia has no portion nor inheritance with her sisters; Yahweh is her inheritance, according as Yahweh your God spoke to her.)
I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights: and Yahweh listened to me that time also; Yahweh would not destroy you.
Yahweh said to me, Arise, take your journey before the people; and they shall go in and possess the land, which I swore to their mothers to give to them.
Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all her ways, and to love her, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
to keep the commandments of Yahweh, and her statutes, which I command you this day for your good?
Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is therein.
Only Yahweh had a delight in your mothers to love them, and she chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.
Circumcise therefore the vulva of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.
For Yahweh your God, she is God of gods, and Domina of dominas, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn't regard persons, nor takes reward.
She does execute justice for the fatherless and widower, and loves the foreigner, in giving her food and clothing.
Therefore love the foreigner; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
You shall fear Yahweh your God; her shall you serve; and to her shall you cleave, and by her name shall you swear.
She is your praise, and she is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things, which your eyes have seen.
Your mothers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.